said with huge eyes.
I jumped up and paced up and down.
“I thought this was what you wanted?” Becky asked and Isabel came to me.
“What is it, sweetheart?”
“What if it doesn’t open?” I said.
“Then you aren’t who you say you are,” Borgen said.
“Don’t you ever insinuate anything like that,” Sir Robert said.
“I’m just answering Elena’s question.”
“I am who I say I am.” I rubbed the inside of my palm hard. “I’m just scared, it’s been almost eighteen years.”
“It will open, princess,” Borgen assured me.
“Don’t call me that, please.”
“Did you tell anybody else about this?” Sir Robert asked.
“No one, yet.”
“Elena,” Isabel looked at me. “There could be something in there that only your parents want you to see. Something tells me your mother knew exactly what your future was going to be like. She knew this day would come, and you would need the chance to prove to everyone that you are their daughter. Not just for them, but for Blake as well. He needs to dent still, Elena. He can’t do that if you are not his Dragonian.” She gave me her motherly smile. “That vault will open.”
I nodded and she gave me a hug.
“Make a fuss, and I mean a huge one, so that everyone that ever doubted her will be there,” Isabel spoke with a slightly harsh tone.
“Consider it done,” Borgen said and stood up. “Will you excuse me? I have a lot of people to see.”
VER THE NEXT few days the buzz around the secret vault of King Albert and Queen Catherine was plastered in every newspaper and every magazine with my face right next to it. King Caleb even spoke a couple of times over the TV, putting everyone at ease that the vault would not open.
“What if it does open, your highness?” one of the reporters asked.
He just lifted up his chin higher and smiled. His left eye twitched a bit. “I promise you, it won’t.”
Sir Robert switched off the TV and stomped out of the room.
“Hey, what’s wrong? This is good news.”
“I know it is, I’m just scared.”
“About the vault not opening?” Sammy raised her eyes.
I shook my head. “About what will happen if it does. I’m not princess material Sammy. I wouldn’t know what to do with the title. I’ll be in the newspapers and magazines all the time, people will print bad things about me, and I don’t know if I can run a country.”
“Then you can thank your lucky stars that my brother is amazing when it comes to the press.”
She made me giggle.
“Besides, you’re going way too fast, you need to slow down. Each day at a time. They won’t shove Paegeia inside your hands and say ‘there you go’.”
I giggled. She sure had a funny way of saying things.
“You are not alone, Elena. We are here, and when Blake comes back...”
“If he comes back.”
“He will come back. Then everything will be different.”
I huffed. “He despises me Sammy.”
“He’s just scared, Elena. He wasn’t always like that you know.”
“So I keep hearing.”
She huffed and I found her staring into space.
“What is it?”
“You know there is a foretelling about a love so strong that nobody will ever break it.”
Lucian told me about this and I saw it that day when I was at the museum with Cheng.
“My mom thinks it’s yours.”
“He will never love me, Sammy.”
“Don’t say that. You don’t know the Blake I do. He’s quite the charmer when he wants something, Elena.”
I giggled again.
“What if he never wants me?”
“I never met a dent or heard of one that doesn’t. Besides stop thinking about tomorrow and live today.”
“You sound like Lucian now.”
“Well, he was bound to rub off on somebody.”
I giggled again. “I love you so much, Samantha Leaf.”
“And I you, princess.” She shook her head in a mocking way.
“Now I know why Lucian hated that so much.”
She giggled and we went to her room.
I still slept on the mattress on the floor. I giggled, what type of a princess was I going to be. One that sleeps on the ground and falls over her own feet, one that has absolutely no idea what a princess should be like. I wondered what was in the vault. It couldn’t be much. I sighed. It didn’t matter, just as long as I could get my dragon back and become who I should’ve been a long time ago.
“You’ll see, tomorrow is going to be a walk in the park.” Sammy spoke in her sleep and I shook my head with a slight grin on my